Accommodations Quotes (page 2)
![Florida Scott-Maxwell quote: "Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed..."](/pic/271935/600x316/quotation-florida-scott-maxwell-life-does-not-accommodate-you-it.jpg)
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.
Camille Paglia
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but...
Jonathan Edwards
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In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.
E. M. Forster
![Oliver Goldsmith quote: "Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the..."](/pic/213952/600x316/quotation-oliver-goldsmith-life-is-a-journey-that-must-be-traveled-no.jpg)
![Mary Douglas quote: "Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been..."](/pic/192910/600x316/quotation-mary-douglas-without-that-assured-american-largesse-israel.jpg)
![Jonathan Edwards quote: "To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than..."](/pic/181607/600x316/quotation-jonathan-edwards-to-go-to-heaven-fully-to-enjoy-god-is.jpg)